Overview
Actors, teachers, and students of performing arts: sharpen your skills and release your potential with Actor Training the Laban Way, a groundbreaking approach to physical and vocal movement. Explore each exercise (at beginner, intermediary, and advanced levels) and gradually build your body’s ability to concentrate and learn through movement. Utilizing theories of preeminent movement theorist Rudolf Laban, acting teacher and performer Barbara Adrian integrates voice, speech, and movement training with illustrated individual and group exercises that include:
- Breath Support
- Building Dynamic Alignment
- Expanding Vocal Tone and Range
- Articulation and Rhythmic Exploration
- Enhancing Strength and Stamina
- Improving Balance and Flexibility
- Developing a Relationship to the Environs
- Revealing Your Emotional State through Physical and Vocal Action
This second edition also includes an all-new chapter of advice from acting professionals on how they deploy these exercises and techniques in their acting preparation, practice, and performance. New appendices offer readers links to video supplements as well as exercises in IPA.
Inspirational and challenging, Actor Training the Laban Way will make any performer more impulsive, imaginative, and expressive.
This book title, Actor Training the Laban Way (Second Edition) (An Integrated Approach to Voice, Speech, and Movement), ISBN: 9781621538431, by Barbara Adrian, Chelsea Clarke, published by Allworth (September 10, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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